Contortion (sometimes contortionism) is a performance art in which performers called contortionists showcase their skills of extreme physical flexibility. Contortion acts often accompany acrobatics, circus acts, street performers and other live performing arts. Contortion acts are typically performed in front of a live audience.
Contortion is built up of many different tricks, skills and postures. These are combined to create acts and routines. There are a huge verity of skills within Contortion that you can learn. These range from core, foundation skills all the way through to performer-unique poses.
The art of contortion has been with us for centuries. As far back as the middle ages, one can read glowing accounts of the performances of court favorites, who twisted and turned their bodies in such a way as to produce strange and difficult patterns.
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Contortionists are circus performers trained to be hypermobile and flexible. They’re the ones stretching their bodies in ways that’ll leave you scratching your head—after all, that’s what they train for. They can bend their limbs this way and that, contorting their bodies into pretzel-like shapes.
She began training contortion at eleven years old and trains at the Mongolian New Circus Center in Ulaanbaatar Mongolia. Her extracurricular activities are playing sports; her favorites being basketball, volleyball, and tennis.
While balancing itself isn't a type of contortion trick, there are many different types of balance commonly used in combination with various contortion poses. Balancing comes in many forms and mainly relates to the fact that the performer's body is not on the ground.